Please don't confuse good-natured ribbing Hurricane as racism. It is annoying when you do it. There's a massive difference between racism - that is, discrimination or prejudice against someone based on their race - and piss-taking between close friends in a team environment. I bet you're a barrel of laughs as a team-mate.

As Brumby said, there's a time and a place, and when someone like Ritchie defends his Muslim joke by saying "It's just a little humourous joke to indicate that they're not my favourite people of my choice" then it's safe to say there's basically no chance of him being anything than a bigoted **** who deserves nothing but contempt. That doesn't mean all race-related jokes are actually racist though; obviously they require a certain closeness and environment - you need to know the guy taking the piss isn't actually serious or it's offensive - but looking for ways to get offended out of context will just make you constantly sour.

Lets part company because I don't share your views on what is and what isn't racism. My view which you won't agree with is that all racist jokes are racist regardless of the "closeness" between the individuals or whether the person is taking the piss.

Why is it funny to call someone a racist name and then slap them on the back afterwards and say I am just teasing mate. I don't really get the joke. Nor do I want to.
"Hey bill you frickin N bomb how's it going?"
"Oh I am doing great PEWS how are you - you old rascal"
"Oh don't stand to close to me you blacks sure do smell - haha just kidding."
etc I could go on.

Racist jokes are just out of order period. There's nothing funny about them PEWS in any context.

Anyways enough said. In the future I will stay out of racism discussions as they bring out the worst sides of people.

Last edited by Hurricane; 11-11-2012 at 11:58 PM.

I got great enjoyment shouting "WHY THE **** ISN'T THIS GAME BEING PLAYED AT THE BASIN?!>!?!?" to reasonably significant cheers from the sparse crowd

one day NZ will bring chappell to his knees in a puddle of his own tears and you'll see Phlegm on his belly greedily tasting every delicious tear before watching the hope fade from that old ****s eyes.

He seems to naturally bowl quite well to left handers, spinning the ball away from them. When bowling to RH bats, I'm not exactly sure how he plans to get them out. From what I've seen Sohag doesn't appear to have much variety, but he is certainly a better option compared to say a Razzak.

I predict he'll finish his career with a bowling average of around 42-44 which will sadly make him close to Bangladesh ATG XI contention.

"Hey bill you frickin N bomb how's it going?"
"Oh I am doing great PEWS how are you - you old rascal"
"Oh don't stand to close to me you blacks sure do smell - haha just kidding."
etc I could go on.

Originally Posted by Athlai

Jeets doesn't really deserve to be bowling.

Originally Posted by Dan

in the future where we're all social justice-y Cribb can ride down the street to pick up some raw milk from Coles on a motorised esky while smoking meth, firing an RPG into the air, and carrying the case of British-import Stella he's polygamously (and privately) married alongside a genderfluid Zambian businessperson and a coke-snorting 18-year-old cyborg girl.

"The PFA does not represent players when they have broken the law and been convicted on non-football matters."- Gordon Taylor in 2009 following Marlon King's release after a prison sentence for sexual assault & ABH